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his wisdom began to be written in ciphers and characters and letters bearing the forms of creatures. Sir W. Raleigh.

A pert of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.

ntly consulted or referred to. Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. Swift. Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests. Creatures that in communities exist. Wordsworth.

to overpower; to subjugate. Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. Dryden. I compel all creatures to my will. Tennyson.

Belonging to a creature; having the qualities of a creature. [R.]

To make like a creature; to degrade [Obs.] Degrade and creaturize that mundane soul. Cudworth.

A creeping creature; a reptile. [Obs.] There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. Morton (1632).

ing rapidly. [Archaic] Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. Tennyson.

to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature. A creature unprepared unmeet for dealth, And to transport him in the mind hi is, Were damnable. Shak.

Description; sort. [R.] "A new creature of another definition." Jer. Taylor.

Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful; as, "a delicate creature." Shak.

t the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last. Burke. Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. Pope.

Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony. The fair music that all creatures made . . . In perfect diapason. Milton.

Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. The creature's at his dirty work again. Pope.

Disconsolate. [Obs.] A poor, disconsolated, drooping creature. Sterne.

in, or of, years; a disparity as to color. The disparity between God and his intelligent creatures. I. Taylor. The disparity of numbers was not such as ought to cause any uneasiness. Macaulay.

A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.

aridity. The drought of March hath pierced to the root. Chaucer. In a drought the thirsty creatures cry. Dryden.

to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes. To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures. Hooker.